My latest poem… tell me what you think of it!
A torrent of green
They burst on the scene-
Ready to take on the world.
Confident – oh, so
Confident
They
Could change the world with
Their song.
So they did.
What once was a forest of
Bleak
Monochrome
Soon became an explosion of
Verdure.
They gladdened the hearts of
The weak and the strong
The fearful and brave
The old and the young.
As the days turned to
Weeks
And the weeks turned to
Months
Their glory was ripening to
Rust
And they knew that their
Sweet days were
Short.
Yet they glowed
And they sang
In the grasp of the wind
That was stealing them
Far, far away on its
Breath
And they fell to their
Death
At the foot of the trees
That were helpless
To bring them to life.
A waste of a season?
They knew that they’d
Lived
The fullness of days
Appointed
To them.
So they sank into time –
Having burst upon
Us
For a moment –
And broke into
Sod
For successors.
Photo by John Silliman on Unsplash
Laurel Luehmann 